On full moon nights, some of the 87 gardens of the Agilenti embark on a full moon harvest. This is typically done only five or six times in a year. In hills, deep in India's West Bengal province, sparse agarwal grows tea. Before midnight, expert pluckers will have plucked 200 kgs of tea leaves.
Scientists have reported a long-awaited nuclear-fusion breakthrough, using lasers to ignite hydrogen-isotope fuel in a self-sustaining burn. But that marks just one step on a long, uncertain road to clean fusion energy. Same-sex marriage in America is now protected by legislation, in a compromise that could provide a template for future culture-war clashes. And the uncertain future of Darjeeling teas.
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